This is a rather schizoid movie as is evidenced by its two alternate
titles "Blue Summer" on one hand, or "Love Truck", on the other. At
times this seems like a typically stupid and painfully unfunny early
70's softcore sex romp with a lot of idiotic and unrealistic situations
and some pretty unappealing actresses. The movie follows a pretty
typical formula--two guys who have just graduated high school go off on
a road trip in a customized van looking some female action, and fall
into all kinds of increasingly absurd, but not particularly funny
situations--and, of course, they have a lot of sex on the way.

There are places, however, where this movie really transcends its
formulaic softcore origins. Reality intrudes in a couple places like
the one another reviewer mentioned where a sexual tryst one protagonist
is having with an older woman is interrupted by her son who's about the
same age he is (and it's treated rather realistically and a little
sadly, not in the comical way of something like "American Pie"). My
favorite scene though, and really the one that makes the whole movie at
all worthwhile, comes in the first half hour: the pair pick up a couple
of female hitchhikers (the ONLY attractive women in this movie) and
they having a long and surprisingly beautifully filmed double sex scene
at a campsite while groovy early 70's music plays on the soundtrack. As
unrealistic as the rest of the movie may be, this one scene really
captures what it was like (or, at least, what I imagine it was
like--this was ten or fifteen years before my time) to be alive and
young in the early 70's. This scene alone might be worth seeing the
rest of the movie.

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